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  2. Castle doctrine - Wikipedia

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    A castle doctrine, also known as a castle law or a defense of habitation law, is a legal doctrine that designates a person's abode or any legally occupied place (for example, an automobile or a home) as a place in which that person has protections and immunities permitting one, in certain circumstances, to use force (up to and including deadly force) to defend oneself against an intruder, free ...

  3. Katyn massacre - Wikipedia

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    Map of the sites related to the Katyn massacre. The Katyn massacre [a] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD (the Soviet secret police), at Joseph Stalin's order in April and May 1940.

  4. LGBTQ rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    At the time, Maryland had a sodomy law applicable only to free males with a punishment of "labour for any time, in their discretion, not exceeding seven years for the same crime, on the public roads of the said county, or in making, repairing or cleaning the streets or bason [sic] of Baltimore-town;" it imposed the death penalty for slaves ...

  5. Abolitionism - Wikipedia

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    It resulted in a far higher percentage of Black people being free in 1830 (13.2% in Louisiana compared to 0.8% in Mississippi). [7] They were on average exceptionally literate, with a significant number of them owning businesses, properties, and even slaves. [8] [9] Other free people of colour, such as Julien Raimond, spoke out against slavery.

  6. Article One of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Filburn; however, Thomas Jefferson, in the Kentucky Resolutions, supported by James Madison, maintained that a penal power could not be inferred from a power to regulate, and that the only penal powers were for treason, counterfeiting, piracy and felony on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.

  7. Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, professing that Jesus was raised from the dead and is the Son of God, [7] [8] [9] [note 2] whose coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament.

  8. Iloilo City - Wikipedia

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    Poverty incidence of Iloilo City 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 15 2006 4.90 2009 7.57 2012 5.98 2015 13.51 2018 3.48 2021 3.30 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Panoramic view of Iloilo City's downtown area in Iloilo City Proper Iloilo City has the second-largest economy in the Visayas, after Cebu City, with a gross domestic product (GDP) of ₱145.05 billion in 2022. It is the hub for trade ...